AKTabBarController 1.1.0

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You want to add pod 'AKTabBarController', '~> 1.1' similar to the following to your Podfile:

target 'MyApp' do
  pod 'AKTabBarController', '~> 1.1'
end

Then run a pod install inside your terminal, or from CocoaPods.app.

Alternatively to give it a test run, run the command:

pod try AKTabBarController

AKTabBarController 1.1.0

By
Ali Karagoz

AKTabBarController is an adaptive and customizable tab bar for iOS.

Features

Portrait and Landscape mode tab bar.
Ability to set the height of the tab bar.
Ability to hide the tab bar when pushed.
Ability to set the minimum height of the tab bar to allow display the title.
Ability to hide the title in the tabs.
When the height of the tab bar is too small, the title is not displayed.
Only one image is needed for both selected and unselected states (style is added via CoreGraphics).
Icons are resized when needed and particularly in landscape mode.
Animated state of the tabs with a nice cross fade animation.
Support pre-rendered images (no glossy effect will be applied).
Set a custom font for tab titles.

Preview

iPhone portrait

Usage

Installation

Add the dependency to your Podfile:

platform :ios

pod 'AKTabBarController'

Run pod install to install the dependencies.

Next, import the header file wherever you want to use the tab bar controller:

#import "AKTabBarController.h"

Creation and initialization of the tab bar

// Create and initialize the height of the tab bar to 50px.
_tabBarController = [[AKTabBarController alloc] initWithTabBarHeight:50];

// Adding the view controllers to manage.
[_tabBarController setViewControllers:@[[[FirstViewController alloc] init], [[SecondViewController alloc] init], [[ThirdViewController alloc] init], [[FourthViewController alloc] init]]]];

Setting the title and image

(in each view controller)

// Setting the image of the tab.
- (NSString *)tabImageName
{
    return @"myImage";
}

// Setting the title of the tab.
- (NSString *)tabTitle
{
    return @"Tab";
}

Accessing the current AKTabViewController instance

// Ensure to import AKTabController and the category for UIViewController
#import <AKTabBarController.h>
#import <AKTabBarController/UIViewController+AKTabBarController.h>

// It's now possible to access the current AKTabBarController instance.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    [self.akTabBarController setTextColor:[UIColor redColor]];
}

Note: self.akTabBarController returns nil on devices running iOS < 5.0.

Customization

Setting the minimum height to display the title

[_tabBarController setMinimumHeightToDisplayTitle:50];

Hide the tab title

[_tabBarController setTabTitleIsHidden:NO];

Hide the tab bar when pushed in an UINavigationController

When pushing a viewcontroller in the viewControllers stack of an UINavigationController it is possible to hide the tab bar. It works exactely like the original UITabBarController:

[viewController setHidesBottomBarWhenPushed:YES];

Full customization example

// Tab background Image
[_tabBarController setBackgroundImageName:@"noise-dark-gray.png"];
[_tabBarController setSelectedBackgroundImageName:@"noise-dark-blue.png"];

// Tabs top emboss Color
[_tabBarController setTabEdgeColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:0.2 green:0.2 blue:0.2 alpha:0.8]];

// Tabs colors settings
[_tabBarController setTabColors:@[[UIColor colorWithRed:0.1 green:0.1 blue:0.1 alpha:0.0], [UIColor colorWithRed:0.6 green:0.6 blue:0.6 alpha:1.0]]]; // MAX 2 Colors
[_tabBarController setSelectedTabColors:@[[UIColor colorWithRed:0.7 green:0.7 blue:0.7 alpha:1.0], [UIColor colorWithRed:1.0 green:1.0 blue:1.0 alpha:0.0]]]; // MAX 2 Colors

// Tab stroke Color
[_tabBarController setTabStrokeColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:0 green:0 blue:0 alpha:0]];

// Icons color settings
[_tabBarController setIconColors:@[[UIColor colorWithRed:174.0/255.0 green:174.0/255.0 blue:174.0/255.0 alpha:1], [UIColor colorWithRed:228.0/255.0 green:228.0/255.0 blue:228.0/255.0 alpha:1]]]; // MAX 2 Colors
[_tabBarController setSelectedIconColors:@[[UIColor colorWithRed:174.0/255.0 green:174.0/255.0 blue:174.0/255.0 alpha:1], [UIColor colorWithRed:228.0/255.0 green:228.0/255.0 blue:228.0/255.0 alpha:1]]]; // MAX 2 Colors

// Text color
[_tabBarController setTextColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:157.0/255.0 green:157.0/255.0 blue:157.0/255.0 alpha:1.0]];
[_tabBarController setSelectedTextColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:228.0/255.0 green:228.0/255.0 blue:228.0/255.0 alpha:1.0]];

// Text font
[_tabBarController setTextFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Chalkduster" size:14]];

// Hide / Show glossy effect on tab icons
[_tabBarController setIconGlossyIsHidden:YES];

// Enable / Disable pre-rendered image mode
[_tabBarController setTabIconPreRendered:YES];

See below the result of the customization:

For further details see the Xcode example project.

Requirements

iOS >= 4.3
ARC
QuartzCore.framework

Screenshots

iPhone landscape

iPad portrait

iPad landscape

Credits

Largely inspired by Brian Collins's BCTabBarController (for views imbrication).
Icons used in the example project are designed by Tomas Gajar (@tomasgajar).

Contact

Ali Karagoz

License

AKTabBarController is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.